Braid-rack



(No Model.)

A. H. MARTEN.

BRAID RACK.

Patented Aug. 15, 1893.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AUGUST H. MARTEN, OF SAN J OSE, CALIFORNIA.

BRAlD-RACK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 503,488, dated August 15, 1893.

Application filed March 17, 1893- Serial No. 466,504.. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, AUGUST H. MARTEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at San J os, Santa Clara county, State of California, have invented an Improvement in Braid- Racks; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to a device which I call a braid rack.

It consists of a series of racks adapted to receive braid of various kinds which is coiled thereon, and a means for supporting a series of said racks in such position as to exhibit their contents, and at the same time to allow any one or more of the racks to be removed or replaced.

Referring to the accompanying drawing for a more complete explanation of my invention,the figure is a perspective View of my invention, one of the racks being out of the slot.

It is customary to wind braid, laces, and similar articles upon flat cards which are usually laid in boxes in quantities, and when they are to be inspected they must be taken out of the boxes and subjected to, more or less handling, laying down, and piling upon each other, which in time injures the material and gives it a shop-worn appearance.

The object of my invention is to provide supports for these various materials, by which they are held upright independently of each other, and in position to be inspected and examined without handling.

A is a base which may be made of any suitable width and length. If desired, it may be made in strips, each strip having a vertical slot A made longitudinally through it, extending nearly from end to end of the strip, or the base may be wide enough to have several slot-s made in it side by side.

13 B are racks formed of wood or other light material having a central body and projections 0 at each corner. The braid, lace, or other material, is wound around the body of the rack, and the ends 0 project far enough so that these ends upon either side, may be introduced into the slot in the base, and the rack will thus be held upright upon edge, the

braid not touching anything except the rack upon which it is wound.

The bases may be made of any desired length. \Vhen they are to be used in stores and placed in glass show cases, they may be made of a length suiiicient to extend across the show case from back to front, and rest upon the bottom, and several of the racks may be placed in the slots A from one end to the other until the base is filled with them.

The bases as before described, may be of sufficient width to contain one or more lines of slots, so that by lifting the base out of the show case, the whole structure may be set upon the counter or case, so that the contents of several of the racks can be inspected at once without handling.

If closer inspection is desired, or any of the material is to be taken from one of the racks, it is lifted out of the slot from which it is supported and replaced after the work is finished. The depth of the slots should be sufficiently less than the length of the projecting corners C, so that when the racks are in position as shown, the body portion of the rack which contains the braid will haveQts lower side elevated above the top of the base whereby the braid is kept from being soiled by contact therewith.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

An improved display rack consisting of a base having parallel slots or openings extendin g horizontally along the same, and the racks having a central body portion for the articles to be displayed and provided with corner extensions adapted to engage said slots, said extensions having a length suficiently greater than the depth of the slots to maintain the racks in a vertical position on edge with the articles upon the body portion out of contact with the base, substantially as herein described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

AUGUST H. MARTEN. Witnesses:

D. MoLEon, GEO. H. STRONG. 

